ignoble
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The ignoble battle ends when a neighbor, Mrs. Prothero, shouts that her house is on fire, “announcing ruin like a town crier in Pompeii.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
“It has these very ignoble beginnings,” said Mark P. Nevitt, a law professor at Emory University and one of the country’s foremost experts on the statute.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
Until the events of “Through the Valley,” the second “The Last of Us” episode of Season 2, the Stark paterfamilias' ignoble demise was the most agonizing turn of all.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2025
The ignoble prize was for worst original song from the film “Newsies,” the same project for which he won a Tony.
From New York Times • May 1, 2023
But such ignoble enticements were less a factor than many critics might presume.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing ignoble
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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